Code Igniter
John Muhl writes:
[Re: last line] Code Igniter really, really speeds up your code.
800-Flowers
Bret Walker writes:
While it’s nice that 1800Flowers.com tries to be helpful with the recipient dropdown menu, the “myself” option seems a little out of place when “recipient” changes to “deceased.”
Dreamhost
Nick Grossman writes:
On the Dreamhost support request form, they ask you to categorize your state of mind regarding your support request. I’ve always liked the way they present these options in a very human way, and with a sense of humor.
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Peter Cooper
on 13 Mar 07Dreamhost are pretty funny in all forms of communication. I always read their newsletter whenever it comes in.
Whether I’ll be convinced to pay full price for something I barely use next year remains to be seen though.. but if you can get an account with the full discount for $19 or so, it’s worth it just to play with a different environment and see a company in their prime.
Chris Mear
on 13 Mar 07Other people have not been so happy with Dreamhost’s flippant attitude.
Paul Armstrong
on 13 Mar 07Except that with Dreamhost support, you’re lucky to get a response in a day or so, even when everything is completely broken.
Fuzzy
on 13 Mar 07Your cropping cut off the best part of the Dreamhost choices—the last part of the last line reads “People are DYING!”.
I hope to god no one’s life ever depends on my web hosting choices.
dusoft
on 13 Mar 07Yes, dreamhost even have support dropdown for choosing your knowledge – e.g. i don’t know anything, i know somethign, i probably know more than you do etc.
but the truth is their support is quite slow via emails (maybe it’s aso because I am in europe and they are in US).
Peter Harkins
on 13 Mar 07Dreamhost’s humor is nice, except in the downtime dropdown. When a site’s down and money’s getting lost and clients are yelling on the phone, it’s not funny, it’s infuriating.
Ara Pehlivanian
on 13 Mar 07It just sucks that I’ve had to use that DreamHost form several times in the past month. Outages are no fun, regardless of the humour in the form. :-/
carlivar
on 13 Mar 07Yup, Dreamhost is #1 in the cute department but near the bottom in uptime and performance.
They seem to have a strange hold on so many people (including me) for their great prices and pretty well-implemented control panel, server configs, wiki, etc. But my IMAP is usually down for hours every week. Even when it’s up it is slooooooow. Their Rails performance is terrible yet everything else is technically pretty solid (many up-to-date gems installed, etc.).
They had some really serious networking problems last summer that probably lost them quite a few customers. I noticed through their communication on the networking problems that they don’t have a full-time networking person. Hmmm. They also don’t seem to have much networking hardware redundancy.
My overall impression is that dreamhost hires great admins and charges less by skimping on hardware at every opportunity. I would NEVER choose them for anything important but they’re decent enough for personal or hobby type stuff I guess.
Dr. Pete
on 13 Mar 07You’ve got to be very thoughtful to send yourself flowers after your own death. To be fair, I miss those little odd combinations all the time when building out sites. I’ve always got to remember to stop and think about the permutations and test, test, test.
glenn
on 13 Mar 07I have not been happy with dreamhost.
Geof Harries
on 13 Mar 07CodeIgniter, and the rest of the EllisLab network websites, recently got a major interface and navigation upgrade. Talk about usable, and beautiful, design.
Luca
on 13 Mar 07eheh, codeigniter is really fast indeed. And damn I just realized they completely changed their website, also logo.. cool.
Craig
on 13 Mar 07I have been using them for about 2 years, never had a problem. Would recommend them for any project.
Barry Hess
on 13 Mar 07I’ve found Dreamhost’s response time runs inverse to the criticallity I give to my support request. I’m sure it was just bad timing, but all-in-all I can’t imagine keeping any application I want running on all cylinders there. I’ll be moving to Slicehost for my Rails apps within the next couple months.
Kasra
on 13 Mar 07True, Dreamhost’s downtimes are quite irritating; but unlike what most people have experienced, I’ve had no problem with their email support. They usually respond within an hour whether I select “OMG! EXTREME CRITICAL EMERGENCY” or “I can’t get things done”.
Steven Andrew Miller
on 14 Mar 07I’ve had dreamhost for gosh, 5 years now? They have always been very fast to respond to my emails for support.
They have issue now and again, but I’ve never had a host that doesn’t.
Beerzie Boy
on 14 Mar 07Dreamhost’s wise-assery gets tiresome when their service is poor, which has been often of late.
Steven Birch
on 14 Mar 07Damn what kind of crappy web hosting account were you running CodeIgniter on for that screen shot anyway…
willy
on 15 Mar 07Code Igniter rocks ass! Don’t blame Dreamhosts’ lame-o hosting on CI, dude.
Kyle Maxwell
on 15 Mar 07Actually, I’ve been with DH for five years come this spring, and I just migrated my company onto their hosting service (we’re a consulting firm, not a web app firm, so it’s mostly brochureware anyway).
And the “level of expertise” there actually does make a difference in their responses. I’ve noticed distinct changes in the information I’m given and the options presented to me by the support admins based my response each time.
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